Tag Archives: Big data

May 16, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

By Ben Kepes

Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple disparate systems and bring sense to them. Business Intelligence is one

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April 23, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Infer Raises $10 Million; Helps Companies Use Data to Win More Customers

By Ben Kepes

Every time we hear about a new company harvesting big data to deliver valuable insights a kitten somewhere dies. Big data, and its related buzzwords, are apparent at every turn. But beyond the over-hyping, there is some real value that the concept of data-powered business applications can generate. Which is

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April 16, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

GreenButton Now Supports OpenStack

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about GreenButton, the awesome company (awesome for reasons other than the fact that they hail from my home town of Wellington, new Zealand, although that helps immensely) vendor of cross-vendor high performance compute cloud platform. I have to give a well times disclosure at this point, New

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April 3, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cisco Announces The Big Data Cloud Software Defined Internet of Things

By Ben Kepes

You read it here first, this morning Lew Tucker from Cisco will take the stage and industry rumors are that he’ll be announcing what is likely to be the big IT trend over the next decade or so. The trend is aid to bring together the major trends currently doing

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February 28, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

By Ben Kepes

When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of the princely $10M funding round the company had just raised. As

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January 22, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SAP Business Suite on HANA, Because Big Data is a Stupid Term

By Ben Kepes

I spent a lot of time last year talking with vendors about big data and it’s ramifications for both the tech industry and the economy at large. Often these conversations centered around one or another vendor’s use of the big data term as the buzzword de jour, regardless of whether

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December 31, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

2013 Cloud Prediction (Yes, I Only Have One)

By Ben Kepes

For over a month now I’ve been seeing cloud predictions, big data predictions, storage predictions and many others. Truth be told the only sort of prediction I’m interested as I spend a month in Australia on a road trip with the family is weather predictions. That said, I should avoid

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December 10, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On Organizations’ Real Requirements Around BigData

By Ben Kepes

Every time another vendor takes the “big data” moniker and applies it to some legacy system a cat somewhere on the internet dies. Like “cloud” a couple of years ago, big data has become the term de jour – and vendors seem to think that simply using it will give

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November 14, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Follow Up Post – Continuuity, the PaaS for Big Data (and a $10M Series A)

By Ben Kepes

When Continuuity came out of stealth recently I was a little dismissive of a press release that was full of buzzwords and lacking significant details about what they’re actually doing. To their credit the Continuuity team reached out to me and spent some time talking about what they’re seeing in

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October 23, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Continuuity Launches Big Data Application Fabric–Warning: Buzzwords Abound

By Ben Kepes

Coming out of stealth today at Strata and Hadoop World is Continuuity, a company that is looking to position itself within the PaaS landscape as it gives organizations the ability to build, deploy and scale big data apps. All of which sounds dangerously like buzzword heaven so it’s worth taking

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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